Re: [Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

2009-01-24 Thread Matt Amos
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Hill st...@nexusuk.org wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Matt Amos wrote: this might be helpful http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/tile_expiry/ Yes, I had a look at that script, but it only expires tiles with nodes on them, which I think

Re: [Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

2009-01-23 Thread Matt Amos
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Steve Hill st...@nexusuk.org wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Chris Andrew wrote: I notice that people often mention the delay in map edits being applied and made _live_. On a related note... For OpenPisteMap, I apply the diffs to the PostGIS DB every minute,

Re: [Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

2009-01-22 Thread Steve Hill
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Chris Andrew wrote: I notice that people often mention the delay in map edits being applied and made _live_. On a related note... For OpenPisteMap, I apply the diffs to the PostGIS DB every minute, so it only lags behind the live data by a few minutes. However, it

Re: [Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

2009-01-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
This is basically what ti...@home tries to do. It is much better to use more frequent updates with mapnik, which requires a lot of bandwidth and processing power. Shaun On 21 Jan 2009, at 22:38, Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, everybody. I notice that people often mention the delay in map edits

Re: [Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

2009-01-21 Thread LeedsTracker
2009/1/21 Chris Andrew cjhand...@gmail.com: With the OSM community growing by the day, this problem can only get bigger. Does anyone know whether anyone has consider using a distributed client [1] such as BOINC [2] to do the _number crunching_? The osmarender layers are done with a similar

Re: [Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Andrew
I just looked at the Tiles installation instructions, and it looks like a nightmare. It also seems strange that people struggle to install, when open source easy to install products exist. I looked at the install for Debian and Ubuntu, and having used GNU/Linux for 10 years, was surprised at how